Moscow’s war against Ukrainian independence has opened rifts with the former Soviet republics in Central Asia whose governments have traditionally followed the Russian rulers’ lead. The capitalist rulers in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — bounded by Russia, China,…
Eleven Ukrainian political parties were suspended and barred from campaigning by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government March 20 on trumped-up charges of having “links with Russia.” The majority are small left parties, like the social democratic Social Movement, but the ban…
A lively debate over the war in Ukraine has been featured in the letters page of the San Leandro Times. Joel Britton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, joined the discussion in a letter printed March 17. The…
An example of the opposition brewing across Russia to Moscow’s war in Ukraine is the statement by Ivan Fedoseyev, who resigned his position as deputy in a village of 200 in the Perm Krai region March 14. “If I had…
RICHMOND, Calif. — “Why are workers here angry? It’s the lack of respect, the arrogance of the company,” striker Frank Aguirre told this Militant worker-correspondent March 27 as I joined him picketing outside the Chevron oil refinery here. The workers…
Moscow’s deadly war against working people in Ukraine was the backdrop for a gathering of imperialist rulers in Brussels March 24. President Joseph Biden and government heads from Germany, Britain, France and 26 other capitalist countries announced decisions to boost…
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — “The truckers’ convoy in Washington isn’t about masks. The truckers are on strike because they’re not making any money!” That’s what owner-operators Clyde and Everett Sesler told me in a March 20 visit with them. I am…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Students in the Indian state of Karnataka have mounted protests after the state’s high court March 15 upheld a government ban on young women wearing headscarves in schools and colleges. Muslim students from several parts of…
Some 40 people rallied in Miami, above, and then caravanned in 20 cars through the streets of Little Havana to City Hall March 27, part of an international day of action demanding an end to Washington’s over 60-year economic war…
Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine has been stalled in a number of areas by fierce Ukrainian armed opposition, along with spirited protests in occupied cities. After raining destruction on civilian populations to try to hammer them into submission, Moscow is stepping…
